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MINDOW 


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PANAY \ I 


PALAWAN  I 


NEGRO 


THE  PHILIPPINE 
ISLANDS 

The  only  foreign  mission  field 
under  the  American  flag.  The 
hub  fr  om  which  the  influence 
of  American  democratic  insti- 
tutions radiates  throughout 
the  Orient. 


MINDANAO!  I 


B efore  Uncle 


TO  ANY  foster- 
parent less  far- 
seeing-,  and 
broad-minded,  and 
big- fisted  than  Uncle 
Sam,  the  adopted 
Philippine  Islands 
would  have  looked 
like  a “hopeless  task.” 


S amTook  Hold 

There  were  8,000,000  people,  with  various  and  sundry 
customs  and  religions  and  some  thirty-two  different  dialects. 
At  a murder  trial  involving  seven  defendants  the  complaint 
was  read  in  four  dialects. 

Brigandage  flourished  in  the  Islands,  fostered  by  insurrection 
and  by  lack  of  administrative  organization. 

Nine  out  of  ten  people  could  not  read  or  write.  There  was  one 
teacher  to  every  4,000  inhabitants.  One  school  to  every  12,000. 

Sewers  and  sanitation  were  unknown  quantities.  Cholera  was 
like  a smouldering  fire  that  burst  into  flame  periodically  and 
sometimes  consumed  a thousand  a day  in  the  city  of  Manila. 


After  Uncle 

The  Philippine  Islands  have 
been  called  America’s  experi- 
ment in  democracy.  Nowhere 
m the  world  has  a civilization  pro- 
gram been  so  successfully  carried  out. 

During  her  regime,  Spain  sent 
over  priests  and  tax  collectors. 
America  sends  experts  in  adminis- 
tration, engineering  and  education. 

The  United  States  believes  in  the 
“Philippines  for  the  Filipinos.”  In 
other  words,  show  ’em  how,  then 
let  ’em  go  to  it. 


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ISamTookHold 


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UNCLE  SAM’S  en- 
trance into  the  islands 
was  marked  by  the 
introduction  of  Clean-up  Day. 
Experts  have  encouraged  the 
natives  to  swat  the  fly  and 
the  mosquito,  and  have 
taught  the  people  not  to 
bathe  the  baby  and  the 
carabao  in  the  same  pool. 

Aguinaldo,  the  former  in- 
surrecto  president,  is  shown 
here  with  the  Director  of 
Education  before  a field  of 
prize  corn  raised  by  Aguin- 
aldo’s  son  in  a school  garden 
contest.  Thus  has  the  in- 
fluence of  Uncle  Sam  revolu- 
tionized the  revolutionist. 


The  Philippines 


Hon.  John  Barrett,  after  a year  in  Manila,  said: 
“I  believe  the  Philippine  Islands  perhaps  the  most 
interesting  and  the  most  fruitful  opportunity  for 
missionary  work  in  any  part  of  the  world  at  present. 
On  account  of  changes  that  are  coming  in,  the  people 
are  looking  out  for  what  may  be  better  along  the 
line  of  religion.” 


President  McKinley  said:  “The  Filipinos  are  a 
race  quick  to  learn  and  to  profit  by  knowledge. 
He  would  be  rash  who,  with  the  teachings  of 
contemporaneous  history  in  view,  would  fix  a limit 
to  the  degree  of  culture  and  advancement  yet 
within  the  reach  of  these  people  if  our  duty  towards 
them  be  faithfully  performed.” 


■THOOrSTS 


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on  a Chart 


The  figures  of  1916  indicate  an  export  and 
import  trade  many  times  greater  than  the  highest 
figures  under  Spain. 

In  all  these  matters  of  commerce  and  industry 
the  Filipino  has  responded  admirably  to  the  sug- 
gestions conveyed  by  the  American. 


and  the  great  majority  of  the  people  know  nothing 
about  their  proper  treatment. 

Our  missionaries  carry  First-Aid  kits,  but  there 
is  no  surgeon  and  no  evangelical  hospital  in  our 
territory,  outside  of  Manila. 


Peoples  of 


The  native  of  the  Islands  is  either  a 
Negrito — dark-skinned,  ignorant,  de- 
graded; or  an  Indonesian — light,  tall, 
strong-limbed,  aggressive;  or  a Malayan — small 
and  brown;  or  one  of  the  thousands  of  Filipinos 
of  the  cities  and  towns  who  have  adopted  the 
standards  of  modern,  civilized  living. 


Unless  he  has  been  converted  since  the 
American  occupation,  he  is  either  a Roman 
Catholic,  nominally  at  least;  or  a rabid  Moham- 
medan Malay;  or  he  is  a barbarous  pagan,  who 
in  his  interior  fastness  was  not  affected  by  the 
Spanish  regime. 


Fear  of  grasping  Spanish  magistrates,  thiev- 
ing Spanish  soldiers  and  unprincipled  Romanist 
friars  for  generations  stifled  all  the  Filipino’s 
desire  to  acquire  prosperity.  But  the  example 
of  American  industry  and  the  en- 
couragement of  American  leaders 
have  inspired  industrial  enterprise 
which  belies  the  Filipino’s  old 
reputation  for  laziness. 


the  Islands 


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Gambling  is  common  among  women 
as  well  as  men.  Athletics  and  clean 
■ recreation  are  planned  by  school  au- 
thorities to  combat  the  influence  of  the  cockpit. 

Almost  everybody  smokes.  Family  cigars  as 
big  as  your  arm  are  lit  by  any  member  of  a 
household  who  wants  a puff.  Children  some- 
times learn  to  smoke  before  they  toddle. 

For  the  rest,  they  are  kindly,  fond  of  music, 
restless,  imitative,  intelligent,  capable  of  assim- 
ilating the  lessons  of  civilization. 

And  Methodism  is  responsible  for  two  and  a 
half  million  of  these  people. 


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In  Dollars 


And  Cents 


AS  A BUSINESS  INVE^STMENT  the  Philippine  Islands  paid  their  way  almost  Irom 
the  start.  And  they  have  hardly  begun  to  realize  their  own  possibilities. 

A.  Probably  the  principal  industry  is  Manila  hemp.  The  Islands  sell  nine  million  dollars’ 

worth  of  hemp  a year.  But  experts  estimate  that  one  of  the  middle-sized  islands,  if  intensively 
cultivated,  could  grow  twice  as  much  hemp  as  the  whole  group  ol  Islands  now  produce. 

The  “jogaphy”  books  tell  us  all  about  the  Philippine  crop  of  sugar.  Every  year  for  the  last  fifty 
years  sugar  has  been  grown  with  almost  no  fertilizer.  Which  speaks  well  for  the  soil  of  the  Islands. 

Next  come  tobacco  and  rice.  And  the  cocoanut  industry,  which  is  capitalized  at  fifteen 
million  dollars. 


On  the  Islands  is  a vast  area  of  millions  of  acres  ol  primeval  forest.  And  the  builders 
import  timber!  Why?  Because  the  railroads  haven’t  hacked  fiat  cars  up  into  the  woods  yet 
to  bring  down  the  lumber  wealth. 

A while  ago  we  were  tearing  our  hair  for  dyes.  The  Philippines  have  seventeen  varieties 
of  dve  woods. 

The  hat  and  emhroiderv  industries  yield  large  profits. 

The  far-away  archipelago  looks  like  a paying  proposition. 


Progress  follows 

The  Philippine  Islands  don’t  raise  as  much  rice  as 
they  eat.  Ignorant  and  thriftless  farm  methods  make 
their  annual  crop  far  smaller  than  their  annual 
consumption. 

The  easy-going  natives,  content  for  years  with  their  primi- 
tive agricultural  methods,  were  awed  by  the  big,  fast  machines 
the  Americans  introduced  into  the  sleepy  islands. 


the  Modern  Plow 

The  first  new  thresher  g-ot  so  much  more  grain  out  of  a 
stack  that  the  amazed  little  brown  men  poked  their  heads 
inside  the  machine  to  see  whether  there  was  a hidden  sup- 
ply of  grain  in  its  internal  workings. 

Our  proposed  industrial  farm  school — like  the  government’s 
agricultural  projects — aims  to  give  the  Filipino  the  benefit  of 
America’s  experience  and  experiments  in  modern  agricultural 
methods. 


The  School 


A LMOST  before  the  echoes  of  the  last  shots  rang  out  in  the 
Philippine  Islands,  school  bells  began  to  ring.  English  has 
^ ^ been  made  the  official  language.  By  1904  many  adults 

could  use  a few  phrases.  Now  50  per  cent,  of  the  people  can  read. 


A complete  school  system  is  going  full  swing.  Elementary 
schools  have  been  established  in  the  remotest  villages  among 
Filipino  children  eager  and 
quick  to  learn.  Fifty  industrial 
courses  teach  the  boys  and  girls 
how  to  make  everything  from 
hats  to  horse-shoes.  The  im- 
portance attached  to  this 


Situation 


training,  together  with  the  example  of  the  energetic  American 
teachers,  is  doing  much  to  remove  the  stigma  hitherto  attached 
to  manual  labor. 


But  civilization  itself  brings  new  pitfalls.  These  young 
men  and  women,  being  educated,  are  hastily  admitted  to  a 
new  life  and  new  environment.  Few  of  their  older  friends  and 

relatives  can  offer  moral  or 
spiritual  support  and  advice, 
for  they  themselves  grew  up 
in  wretched  and  immoral  sur- 
roundings. Therein  lies  the 
work  of  the  Church. 


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How  the  Mission 

IF  you  want  good  water  it  is  not  enough  to  paint  the  pump: 
you  must  clean  out  the  well.” 

That’s  how  the  Mission  Church  fits  in.  It  aims  to  clean  out 
the  well.  Much  of  the  government  work  only  “paints  the  pump.” 

The  most  salient  lack  in  the  Filipino,  generally  speaking, 
is  character.  Political,  economic,  sociological  problems  depend 
for  their  ultimate  solution  on  the  regeneration  of  the  individual. 

Organization  and  education  do  not  control  personal  character, 
do  not  regulate  personal  morals.  Protestant  Christianity  does 
that.  And  for  that  reason  Protestant  Christianity  is  vital  to  the 
successful  democratization  of  the  Islands.  For  without  character 
and  morals  no  lasting  results  can  be  achieved  by  organization 
and  education. 


The  Filipinos  are  rapidly  learning  to  read, 
and  they  want  “something  to  read.”  The 
Methodist  Publishing  House  in  Manila  answers 
that  growing  demand. 


A Graduating  Class,  Harris  Memori 


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Church  Fits  In 


Bible  class  in  English,  Malolos. 


Eble  Training  School,  Manila. 


It  was  an  army  officer  who  admitted  that  Protestant  missions 
do  more  than  troops  to  inculcate  the  ideals  of  civilization  in  the 
Philippine  Islands. 


I'he  deaconess  who 
visits  the  homes  and 
takes  the  children 
to  church. 


How  the  Mission 


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HY  d o we  need  Mission  schools  in  a field  where  the 
g-overnment  program  of  education  is  so  complete?” 

That  question  undoubtedly  arises  in  your  mind. 

The  aim  of  our  Misssion  schools  is  not  to  compete  with  the 
government  in  a scheme  of  secular  education.  Far  from  it.  But 
we  do  need  to  train  up  a goodly  number  of  Native  Christians. 
Experience  shows  that,  in  order  to  prepare  them  for  lives  of  the 
fullest  usefulness,  their  education  — from  the  earliest,  most  im- 
pressionable period — should  be  influenced  by  Christianity.  The 
spiritual  background  of  a Mission  dormitory  does  much  to  mould 
the  character  of  the  students. 


junior  League  Class  under  the  direction  of  a native  deaconess 


School  Fits  In 

AND  so  we  maintain  dormitories  for  students  in  Manila, 
Vigan  and  Tuguegarao.  Six  more  are  proposed  in  con- 
A m.  nection  with  Provincial  High  Schools. 

The  Church  in  the  Philippines  cannot  exist  indefinitely  on  the 
shoulders  of  American  missionaries.  It  will  not  be  permanent,  it 
will  not  be  self-reliant,  until  there  is  created  an  adequate  and  con- 
tinuous supply  of  native  preachers,  workers  and  teachers. 

And  so  we  cooperate  in  the  support  of  the  Union  Theological 
Seminary  at  Manila. 


That  is  the  program  of  our  Mission  schools. 


Group  of  Students  at  the  Union  Theological  Seminary,  Manila 


Our  Contribut 
of  the  Philippine 


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ion  to  the  Health 


Mission  property  at  Aparri,  where 
for  a time  hospital  treatments  were 
given.  The  medical  work  has  been 
abandoned,  however,  because  the 
missionary  doctor  was  obliged  to 
return  to  the  United  States. 


"Cast  Thy  Bread 

Has  anything-  returned  unto  us  ? What  have  our  missionary 
efforts  in  the  Philippines  accomplished  ? Fifty  thousand 
members  in  the  eighteen  years  of  our  work. 

In  seven  capital  cities  missionaries  are  established  to  guide  the 
work  of  over  thirteen  hundred  Filipino  preachers. 


This  graduating 
class  shows  the  type 
of  capable,  earnest 
men  who  go  forth 
from  the  Theological 
Seminary  in  Manila 
to  spread  the 
truth  among 
the  tribes. 


More  and  more  of  the  village 
churches  become  self-supporting. 
Little  chapels  like  this  unpretentious 
bamboo  building  spring  up  as  evidence 
of  the  desire  of  the  new  converts  for  a 
place  of  worship. 

Tomas  Altamero,  pictured  at  the 
right,  is  an  example  of  the  strong,  de- 
voted native  Christians.  After  he  be- 
came a minister  he  had  the  opportunity 
to  come  to  America.  But  he  refused 
to  leave  the  Islands,  because  he  rec- 
ognized the  need  for  workers  among 
his  people. 


Our  Ftesent  Investment 


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TO  prevent  duplica- 
tion of  effort  the 
Philippine  Islands  are 
divided  among  several  mis- 
sion societies. 

And  Methodism  is  re- 
sponsible for  two  and  a 
half  million  people. 

Medical  mission  work 
is  shamefully  neglected 
throughout  the  Philippines. 

Methodism  has  no  medi- 
cal worker  and  no  medical 
institution  among  two  mil- 
lion people. 

Two  small  medical  sta- 
tions of  a sister  mission  are 
entirely  inadequate  to  the 
need. 

Our  proposed  hospital  at 
Aparri  will  minister  to  half 
a million  people. 

The  second  site  chosen 
for  a hospital  is  Dagupan, 
the  busiest  city  of  Luzon 
outside  of  Manila. 

This  medical  station  will 
bring  aid  to  a million 
people. 


WHAT  WE  HAVE 


1918 


PROPERTY- 


No. 

Valuation 

Churches,  chapels,  parson- 

ages,  homes 

266 

5176,528 

Educational  institutions 

and  presses  .... 

2 

68,750 

Hospitals  and  Dispensaries 

Total  property 

5245,278 

STAFF- 


1 1 Missionaries  and  foreign  workers 
1351  Native  preachers  and  workers 
4 Teachers 


1366  Total  staff 


STUDENTS 5; 

MEMBERSHIP 50,00( 

SUNDAY  SCHOOL  SCHOLARS  . 23,96: 
EPWORTH  LEAGUES,  MEMBERS  6,101 
UNBAPTIZED  ADHERENTS  . . 13,94; 


Ourftoposals  for  theFuture 


WHAT  WE  NEED 


1918-1922 


property- 


128  Churches  and  Chapels 
5 Missionary  residences 
Land  for  above 

1 Christian  University  . 
7 Dormitories  — High 
School  Students 
1 Theological  School 
1 Industrial  School  . 

1 Hill  School  . 

2 Hospitals 

Total  property  and 
equipment 


$218,610 


355,500 

25,000 


5599,110 


STAFF  AND  MAINTENANCE 


69  Native  preachers  . 
9 Missionaries  . 

$167,950 

7 Native  teachers 

5,700 

3 Doctors  .... 

27,000 

Total  staff  . 

$200,650 

Total  requirements 

$799,760 

From  local  receipts 

132,370 

From  home  base  . 

667,390 

The  men  who  dedicate 
their  lives  to  mission- 
ary work  should  not  be 
required  to  sacrifice  the  wel- 
fare of  their  families.  Our 
askings  include  a school 
for  missionaries’  children. 

Students  from  the  hill 
country  are  sometimes  cor- 
rupted by  the  influences  of 
the  city  in  which  they  are 
going  to  school.  Metho- 
dist dormitories  are  built  to 
counteract  those  influences. 

The  dormitory  in  Manila 
accommodates  eighty  uni- 
versity students.  Six  hun- 
dred applicants  were  turned 
away  in  one  year. 

Christian  education  is  an 
absolute  necessity  for  a 
growing  church. 

There  are  ten  thousand 
students  in  Manila,  either 
in  government  institutions, 
Roman  Catholic  schools  or 
private  schools. 

But  Protestant  Christianity 
is  entirely  without  any  insti- 
tution for  higher  education. 


Democracy  and 


From  August  I,  1914,  the  Great  War  was 
fought  for  an  Ideal.  A rather  visionary 
Ideal,  but  a very  noble  Ideal.  When, 
however,  America  announced  to  the  world  her 
reasons  for  entering  the  war  there  crystallized 
in  the  minds  of  the  Allies  a concrete  conception 
of  Freedom  and  Democracy. 

As  the  combat  progressed  and  drew  to  a close 
the  Ideal  took  shape — was  reduced  to  working  plans. 
Men  have  died  for  Ideals  before — centuries  before. 
Men  are  learning  now  to  live  by  Ideals. 

Merging  from  the  smoke  of  battle  is  a great 
World  Emancipation  Plan  to  ensure  freedom.  The 
freedom  of  man  everywhere  to  come  and  go  and 
do  as  he  pleases  as  long  as  he  observes  the  com- 
mon laws  of  humanity. 

America  pronounced  this  standard  for  civilization. 

The  nations  of  the  world  have  taken  up  the  task 
of  World  Betterment.  Weak  peoples,  little  peoples, 
far  away  peoples  and  oppressed  peoples  are  to  have 
their  day. 


the  Centenary 


They  are  lofty  principles  which  are  involved. 
Big  abstractions  which  cannot  be  taught  in  a day. 
Even  to  folks  reared  in  a Republic,  Democracy  is  a 
thing  d 'Ecult  to  define  and  apply. 

To  a people  just  bursting  from  the  shackles  of 
Ignorance  and  Paganism  these  principles  are  well- 
nigh  incomprehensible.  Mere  education  does  not 
provide  the  necessary  background  of  knowledge 
to  enable  a recent  pagan  to  mould  his  own  life  and 
his  relations  to  his  fellow-men  according  to  these 
new  standards.  But  Christian  education  does. 

If,  with  his  knowledge  of  the  ways  of  men,  the 
new  citizen  of  the  world  imbibes  a knowledge  of 
the  New  Testament  doctrines  of  living  among  men, 
there  is  less  danger  that  the  peace  of  the  nations 
will  ever  be  disrupted  again. 

That  is  why,  as  we  plan  to  extend  our  program 
in  the  Philippine  Islands,  we  believe  that  this  Cen- 
tenary Campaign  is  a part  of  the  great  World 
Movement — which  began  with  the  war,  and  will  end 
when  the  world  is  safe  for  democracy — everywhere. 


There  is  a generation  of  adopted  Yank 
youngsters  in  the  Philippine  Islands  who 
have  learned  to  look  eastward  across  the 
Pacific  for  all  they  have  received. 

They  hear  tales  of  the  landing  of  the  army  of 
white  soldiers — who  came  not  to  vanquish  and 
destroy,  but  to  put  a stop  to  the  endless  dissension 
that  bled  the  tribes. 

Then  followed  the  army  of  engineers,  with 
their  magic  machines,  to  rid  the  narrow  streets 
of  the  pools  of  black  slime  that  bred  disease  and 
death. 

These  children  have  seen  the  army  of  school 
teachers  who  came  to  show  the  Philippine  Islands 
the  ways  of  the  rest  of  the  world.  To  plant  the 
seed  that  has  inspired  the  Eilipino  to  exert  his 
best  effort,  to  make  the  most  of  his  resources 
and  possibilities. 

Now  comes  the  army  of  Christian  soldiers  who 
carry  the  message  of  the  New  Eaith  and  the  New 
Hope  to  these  expectant  little  Eilipinos.  The 
mightiest  army  of  them  all.  But  not  large 
enough  to  accomplish  the  greatest  good,  unless 
it  is  re-enforced  by  your  generous  effort. 


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GENERAL  SIR  JULIAN  BYNG 
To  BISHOP  McConnell 

“ THAT  is  concerning  me  is  the  task  before  the  Church 
Y Y of  God.  That  is  what  is  concerning  me.  I trust 
that  you  will  go  back  to  your  own  country  and  go 
to  your  own  people,  and  in  every  way  that  you  can  urge 
upon  them  that  in  the  days,  the  terrible  days  ahead  of  usi 
the  days  after  the  war,  the  Church  shall  fail  not.” 


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